Question

In the 19th century, Western music became popular in India and as a result the following instruments were adopted:
1. Guitar, Tabla
2. Trampoline, Tanpura
3. Violin, Piano
4. Sitar, Piano

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Violin, Piano

The correct answer is Violin, Piano.

• In the 19th century, Western music became popular in India and as a result, the Violin, Piano instruments were adopted.
• The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700.
  • It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.
  • Pianos can be broken down into three types of categories:
    • Grand pianos, Upright pianos, and digital pianos.
• The violin, sometimes known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone in the violin family.
  • Most violins have a hollow wooden body.
  • It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use.
  • A distinctive feature of a violin body is its hourglass-like shape and the arching of its top and back.
  • The hourglass shape comprises two upper bouts, two lower bouts, and two concave C-bouts at the waist, providing clearance for the bow.
  • Hence, the correct option is 3.

• Guitar :
  • The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
  • It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the fingers/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. 
  • There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar:
    • the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, the archtop guitar.
  • George Beauchamp invented Guitar.
• Tanpura :
  • The tanpura is a long-necked plucked string instrument, originating from India, found in various forms in Indian music.
  • It does not play melody but rather supports and sustains the melody of another instrument or singer by providing a continuous harmonic bourdon or drone.
• Sitar :
  • The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.
  • The instrument was invented in medieval India and flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries and arrived at its present form in 18th-century India.